Gualicho
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Gualicho 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (91 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Gondwana · Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Gualicho (named in reference to the gualichu) is an enigmatic genus of theropod dinosaurs. The type species is Gualicho shinyae. It lived in what is now northern Patagonia, on what was then a South American island continent split off from the supercontinent Gondwana. The fossils were found in the Huincul Formation, dating to the late Cenomanian-early Turonian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, around 91 million years ago.
What we know
- Named by Apesteguía et al., 2016.
- Fossils found in South America and Gondwana.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Gualicho — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.